Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr is a tight-knit K-5 school, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It caters to 300 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr reports that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 13% White, 12% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.2%; Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr posts 80.0%, +31.8 points above that line.

Around the school, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr is one.

Simeon Career Academy High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 13.8%.

Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 284 students in 2018 compared to 300 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 60% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.